By tilmann on

Hi,

I need just one user-id for many people logging into the system. How do I disable the "my account" section, so users can not change e-Mail, password etc. In addition, having a "my account" link is already confusing for many users.

Thanks for the help

tilmann

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yelvington’s picture

yelvington commented

Enable the menu module, and turn off that menu item.

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tilmann commented

That's not possible. When you go to menu module and want to disable "my account" it says "locked". Any other ideas?

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behindthepage commented

Disable the block with the Nav menu and create a new menu with only the links you want and put it in a custom block.

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tilmann commented

Thanks for the reply. But isn't there an easier way without having to rebuild the whole navigation block? Is there no way to simply disable the link "my account"?

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ShaiHulud commented

That's exactly the option that I am looking for!

In building a corporate website, we have restyled the menu as dropdown menus, but 'my account' shouldn't be part of this. Creating a new menu has the disadvantage that it does not dynamically handle installation of and changes in modules (e.g., adding a new module currently adds it under admin/settings dropdown menu). By using a new, static, menu, this does not happen. This dynamic functionality is particularly important to users that have access to the admin menu.

Besides, I don't like items being locked from admin control..

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jurep commented

goes like this (for 4.6.3). All changes are in the file:
modules/user.module

NOTE: to change a line probably means to comment it out and add new one. Have a copy of original user.module around (maybe you have patched version) if something goes wrong.

1. Search for function user_perm and change line
return array('administer users', 'access user profiles');
with
return array('administer users', 'access user profiles', 'access own profile');

2. Search for function user_menu and change line
$view_access = (user_access('access user profiles') || ($user->uid == arg(1)));
with
$view_access = (user_access('access user profiles')||user_access('access own profile'));

3. Search for comment //your personal page (around line 700) and change
if ($user->uid ) {
with
if ($view_access ) {

Then I believe a cache should be cleared (either from mysql cmd line or other tool like phpmyadmin, emtpy table 'cache').

So how it works after change.
On a 'access contro' page new permission 'access own profile' appears for user module. Roles with 'access own profile' will see the 'my account' menu item, others won't. 'Access user profiles' permission, as plural implies, still allows access to all user profiles, regardless of the 'access own profile'.

I hope this helps. Please let me know if there are any problems I missed.

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Geary commented

Thanks! This is exactly what I needed for one of my sites.

You missed one thing: A user can still get to their Edit page if they enter the URL explicitly. To fix that, make one more change, around lines 714-716, from:

      $items[] = array('path' => 'user/'. arg(1) .'/edit', 'title' => t('edit'),
        'callback' => 'user_edit', 'access' => $admin_access || $user->uid == arg(1),
        'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK);

to:

      $items[] = array('path' => 'user/'. arg(1) .'/edit', 'title' => t('edit'),
        'callback' => 'user_edit', 'access' => $admin_access || $view_access,
        'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK);
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nydrupalfan commented

It looks like a similar access change is required another 15 or so lines down to:
if (arg(2) == 'edit') {.......

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alex_stanhope commented

Some very minor additions/changes for v4.7.2:

in modules/user.module

1. line 435
return array('administer access control', 'administer users', 'access user profiles', 'change own username');
with
return array('administer access control', 'administer users', 'access user profiles', 'change own username', 'access own profile');

2. line 700, replace
$view_access = user_access('access user profiles');
with
$view_access = (user_access('access user profiles')||user_access('access own profile'));

3. line 770
if ($user->uid ) {
with
if ($view_access ) {

4. line 798 (to stop users messing with email&password, even if they get access)
$items[] = array('path' => 'user/'. arg(1) .'/edit', 'title' => t('edit'),
'callback' => 'user_edit', 'access' => $admin_access || $user->uid == arg(1),
'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK);

$items[] = array('path' => 'user/'. arg(1) .'/edit', 'title' => t('edit'),
'callback' => 'user_edit', 'access' => $admin_access || $view_access,
'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK);
with
$items[] = array('path' => 'user/'. arg(1) .'/edit', 'title' => t('edit'),
'callback' => 'user_edit', 'access' => $admin_access,
'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK);

$items[] = array('path' => 'user/'. arg(1) .'/delete', 'title' => t('delete'),
'callback' => 'user_edit', 'access' => $admin_access,
'type' => MENU_CALLBACK);

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esord commented

Halo,

I think that the posts in this section will be very useful for many users. I know that they were for me... I was wondering how to do this and I came up with these posts and I tried them at once.

The thing is that I am currently using version 4.7.3 and I have a small problem. I can not make the access own profile work. Even when I assign this permission to some user he does not have right to do so. Is there some difference that you know of in version 4.7.3? It might be my mistake that it does not work because I didn't find exactly the lines in step 4 that I should replace. Can you possibly give me some help on that?

Thanks a lot,
esord

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Wolfflow commented

Hi Alex,

I'm working on a Drupal 5 Beta 1 and would apply your workaround. I found that the 1. 2. 3. Steps of code changing are the same. But the lastpoint is not. Will be nice if you can take a look at the code a supplyed as from User.module of Drupal 5B1 here. Thanks.

$items[] = array('path' => 'user/'. arg(1) .'/edit', 'title' => t('Edit'),
          'callback' => 'drupal_get_form', 'callback arguments' => array('user_edit'),
          'access' => $admin_access || $user->uid == arg(1), 'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK);
        $items[] = array('path' => 'user/'. arg(1) .'/delete', 'title' => t('Delete'),
          'callback' => 'user_edit', 'access' => $admin_access,
          'type' => MENU_CALLBACK);

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alex_stanhope commented

Hi Wolfflow,

I think it's as simple as removing the || in the first expression, to ensure on admins can edit account details.

$items[] = array('path' => 'user/'. arg(1) .'/edit', 'title' => t('Edit'),
'callback' => 'drupal_get_form', 'callback arguments' => array('user_edit'),
'access' => $admin_access, 'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK);
$items[] = array('path' => 'user/'. arg(1) .'/delete', 'title' => t('Delete'),
'callback' => 'user_edit', 'access' => $admin_access,
'type' => MENU_CALLBACK);

Cheers, Alex

P.S. Thanks to juref for getting all this started.

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bowersox commented

If you prefer not to alter core modules, you might consider instead redirecting to a page other than 'My Account' when users log in. The 'My Account' link would still appear on the navigation menu, but users would not be sent to 'My Account' by default after logging in.

Here is sample code to add to your own module to set the destination after login:

/** 
 * Implement hook_user(). 
 * Redirect the user to the homepage after login (rather than to the 'My Account' page).
 */ 
function MODULENAME_user($op, &$edit, &$account, $category = NULL) {
  switch($op) {
    case 'login':
      drupal_goto('/node/123');
  }
}

MODULENAME should be replaced with the name of your module.
'/node/123' should be replaced with the path you would to redirect to after login; leave an empty string ('') to go to the front page.

This change might do enough to reduce confusion that you don't need to alter core. Sample code is for Drupal 5.

Brandon Bowersox
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blue.moon commented

I wanna try to change My Account Page ??
Can Anyone tell me how can i do that??

I m very curious about it.
I know its dynamically generated form, but I could not find any Location where these forms are generating.

Please give me suggestion.!

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behindthepage commented

A module can display info on the User page with the function hook_user.

http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_user/5

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